B-School Resume Review

Looking for all the feedback I can get for this MBA Application Resume. Targeting M7. Considering using some version of consulting services but figured Ide see what i can get from the community here first. Ideally ide like to transition from portfolio management to a research/banking role post mba. FYI - At my firm, portfolio management is seperate from research
-Should i include GMAT on here (730)
Ide like to thank all of you who have been helpful with my MBA app questions. Much appreciated.

http://www.razume.com/documents/27497

 
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One way to make it flow a little better is to put your undergrad EC's up by your education - this gives a better sense of what you actually did as an UG that stood out - and add some results based things here (i.e. was member of X organization all four years, had a senior leadership position responsible for x and achieved y new members, etc) preferably that tie back to your reasons for wanting to go to b-school and say something about who you are as a person - especially important for us finance heavy people. If you look at HBS MBA resumes they all follow this format (put ECs by the education where they did them) and then put current non-work activities under personal or other.

Definitely can't hurt to include the gmat score (of course they'll have it anyway), but no need to remind them if your quant was low (but I'm sure quant was fine i.e. above 80% with a 730).

If you end up needing more room, just shove everything a bit to the left. I think technically you should put education after experience since you are currently employed - small nag.

In general, I'm having a hard time seeing individual impact/contribution - you're clearly stating what you do, but what have you done above or achieved an interesting or unexpected result? Try to think of times at work you've done things beyond your normal scope and what impact that had - it could be something small, but anything that shows extra initiative and creativity is a good thing.

Hope that is helpful! Any questions let me know

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frgna:

In general, I'm having a hard time seeing individual impact/contribution - you're clearly stating what you do, but what have you done above or achieved an interesting or unexpected result? Try to think of times at work you've done things beyond your normal scope and what impact that had - it could be something small, but anything that shows extra initiative and creativity is a good thing.

Hope that is helpful! Any questions let me know

Greetings. I do gree with frgna on this point. I review resumes for Stanford GSB students, and they are guilty of this as well: putting too much job description in your resume. First bullet point, for example, you participate in meetings. That's an activity, not an accomplishment. Look for impact -- like yr third bullet point. There the reader knows you've added value to the company. Have you made recommendations that made money? Put it in. Have you identified something everyone else missed? Put it in. Have you run a team or initiative within your group? put it in.

Format is pretty good -- but I wouldn't put education on top. The rule is that you put your current activity up front. Here's a blog post I wrote about the one-page resume. http://masteradmissions.com/wp/2011/11/22/on-a-great-one-page-resume/

If you'd like the template, click on the link on my sig below and you'll see a way to download it.

Betsy Massar Come see me at my Q&A thread http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/b-school-qa-w-betsy-massar-of-master-admissions Ask away!
 

Not trying to be a douche, but mikebrady probably took a look at it, saw RBC and CS and thought it was "competitive to top schools"

Pretend like you're looking at someone else's resume. This resume is very vague, to say the least. I cannot create a clear picture of what your tasks and accomplishments were for each roles you have listed.

"provided analytical and research support in the analysis of various fixed income securities" Ok, this sounds great, but what exactly did you do? What kind of value-add did you produce?

In other words, your resume is not result-oriented. There's no impact. There's nothing that makes you go "hmm, this thing he/she did here is interesting"

Looks like your most recent experience has much more detail in its description, probably because it's more recent. I would make that portion more succinct.

TL;DR: I think you've had some great experience, which you can spin it to your benefit. Right now, I don't think you've done a great job at that. Especially if you're targeting MBA business schools ">M7. As it generally is for a lot of people, you seem to be trying to hard to list everything you can possible cram into a resume that might look good. "Consulting Analyst for Professor of Columbia Business School, 2008" Come on man, what are you trying to accomplish by listing this? How will this make you a more competitive applicant? You think this will impress the reader? At least put some meat to it if you actually did something significant as a "Consulting Analyst"

 

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